I have a setup where I use KTor with KMongo and Kotlinx.Serialization.
The Kmongo part works, I can get and put my Class
@Serializable
data class Task(@ContextualSerialization @SerialName("_id") val _id : Id<Task> = newId(),
val title : String = "",
val description : String = ""
)
Into the database and retrieve it. That all works flawlessly.
But when I try to send that object through a rest call to the frontend, again with Kotlinx.Serialization.
get<Tasks>{ task ->
val dao by di().instance<Dao>();
val task = Task( title = "task1", description = "task1description");
val foundTask = dao.read(task);
if(foundTask != null){
call.respond(foundTask)
} else {
call.respond("didn't find anything")
}
}
It throws this expection:
kotlinx.serialization.SerializationException: Can't locate argument-less serializer for class WrappedObjectId. For generic classes, such as lists, please provide serializer explicitly.
at kotlinx.serialization.PlatformUtilsKt.serializer(PlatformUtils.kt:21)
at kotlinx.serialization.modules.SerialModuleExtensionsKt.getContextualOrDefault(SerialModuleExtensions.kt:29)
at kotlinx.serialization.ContextSerializer.serialize(ContextSerializer.kt:29)
at kotlinx.serialization.json.internal.StreamingJsonOutput.encodeSerializableValue(StreamingJsonOutput.kt:227)
at kotlinx.serialization.builtins.AbstractEncoder.encodeSerializableElement(AbstractEncoder.kt:72)
Now I figured out that this is because there are 2 instances of the kotlin.serialization json. and the one on KMongo does not share it's serializers with the other one.
so I added the serializers from KMongo to the other instance from Ktor
install(ContentNegotiation) {
json(
json = Json(DefaultJsonConfiguration.copy(prettyPrint = true), context = kmongoSerializationModule),
contentType = ContentType.Application.Json
)
}
and now I get
java.lang.ClassCastException: class kotlinx.serialization.json.internal.StreamingJsonOutput cannot be cast to class com.github.jershell.kbson.BsonEncoder (kotlinx.serialization.json.internal.StreamingJsonOutput and com.github.jershell.kbson.BsonEncoder are in unnamed module of loader 'app')
So my question is why is it happening and how to fix it?